"Oral history.; Two interviews conducted February 11, 2000 and July 12, 2001. Daisy Harris Wade
was born April 22, 1931 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She attended Hattiesburg's Eureka High School and
graduated in 1949. After high school, she...

A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to lay taxes for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Confederate States." By Mr. Kenner, from Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, make special order for Monday after morning...

Oral history.; Interview conducted August 27, 2005. Charles Lorenzo Davis is a native of Hattiesburg. Davis participated in civil rights era activism inspired by a visit from Medgar Evers to his church. He discusses the role of the church in the...

Oral history.; Interview conducted with Kathleen Miller. Mary Kathleen Reed Miller was born to Charlie Reed and Noblee Winham Reed in Hosston, LA in April 1925. She went to school in New Iberia, LA, and afterwards went to a three-year training...

Oral history.; Interview with Jasper Neely conducted on February 19, 2000. Jasper Neely was born in Grenada, Mississippi in 1938. He experienced racism and discrimination at an early age. At the age of 25 Neely got involved in the movement to...

From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Dundee, Scotland, and New York by Valentine & Sons, circa 1920. The covers depict the front and rear of the coach, with the top edge shaped. Donated with the Floyd C. and Stella T....

From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Booklet published for the 4th annual tour of the "Know Mississippi Better" train. The tour, which visited 36 cities in the United States, ran from 7-23 August 1927.

From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Breakfast, lunch and dinner menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train from 9-16 August 1928, while touring the Pacific Northwest on the Northern Pacific Railroad.

From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers. Published copy of the French edition of Leurs Maisons, by H.A. Rey. This copy has been edited in English. Published by Gallimard in Paris, 1939. Each illustration has a folded flap which opens to 37...

From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; From a segregationist position, James C. Davis discusses the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, and presents ways in which to oppose integration.

From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In this pamphlet, Landry asserts that integrationists are trying to reunite the races that God separated in the Old Testament story of the Tower of Babel. He asserts that new anthropological and...

From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet published by the Mississippi State Junior Chamber of Commerce states that its purpose is to explain parts of the story of the University of Mississippi's forced integration that the...